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ReadyNAS 204 or 314?
Hi, I am looking at buying a new ReadyNAS. I had a 104 a few years ago and it was so slow I ended up returning it as it was not suitable. I have since seen the 204 is avaiable and I wonde...
RN200 is ARM, while RN300 is X86/Atom. The ARM process in the RN200 is much faster than the one in the RN100 series.
My RN202 is using WD60EFRX disks in jbod mode, gigabit ethernet w/o jumbo frames. Antivirus is disabled and the volume is not encrypted. Bitrot protection, compression and snapshots were disabled for the share I used for testing.
Throughput with large files (400 MB, using Nastester 1.7) is ~92 MB/s write and ~96 MB/s read speeds. I don't own an RN314, so I have no comparable data for it. SmallNetbuilder.com got around 100 MB/s for the RN312 back in 2013.
PLEX transcoding works on the RN200 as well, though 1080p stalls frequently (and 720p transcoding stalls occasionally). It's still quite useful, since w/o it the RN100 simply refuses to play a lot of media.
So performance is close to the RN300 series. Often times the RN300 is also about the same price.
If the price is close, then I'd go with the RN300. But the RN200 performs quite well, especially if you are mostly interested in SMB speed.
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